Miresua is an imaginary, artificial, constructed language; a conlang. These words are not randomly generated. Miresua is an eclectic alphabetic mix of Basque and Finnish, two unrelated European languages.

30 April 2015

aukore = hawk (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "aukore": a rare term; user names; seems to be a rare Polynesian name; means something in Ainu; means something in a language of Namibia; bad OCR of old text documents, including several bad scans of the Latin word auctore which can mean originator or author)

My previous Miresua conlang word for hawk was aukora. This is a minor change to lessen, but not to eliminate, the number of nouns ending in -A. Why I'm making these changes is because a suffix of -A will be added to nouns for the definite article in Miresua, and I'd rather not have a large number of -AA endings.

The word hawk does not appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass.

26 April 2015

kalo = hen (bird) (noun) (Some things Google found for "kalo": a very common term; in Hawaiian kalo means taro plant; Kalo (and Kaló) is an unusual last name; a rare to unusual often masculine first name; member of a subgroup of the Romani people in Western and Northern Europe (plural is Kale); KALO is an independent religious TV station serving Honolulu; KALO is the code for Waterloo Regional Airport in Iowa; Kalo Hair Inhibitor; in Esperanto kalo means callus; in Romani kalo means black; Kalo Nero is the name of a place in Greece; name of places in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Turkey, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Lesotho and Indonesia)

22 April 2015

hanari = goose (noun) (some things Google found for "hanari": an uncommon term; Hanari (and similar Hañari) is an unusual last name; a rare first name; Hanari Solomon is a female cosplayer; Hanari Apartment in Osaka, Japan; similar Hannari Tofu Japanese cushions and plush toys; name of places in Iraq, South Korea and Pakistan)

18 April 2015

apulen = final (adjective) (some things Google found for "apulen": an unusual term; user names; similar Apuleni is a rare last name; Ye Pikvu Apulen Shet is a Marathi song title; Rio Apulen (or Appeleg) may be the name of river on the Argentina - Chile border; similar Apulien is the German name for Apulia which is a region of southern Italy)

14 April 2015

vizke = last (adjective) (some things Google found for "vizke": a rare term; user names; a rare last name; similar Vizkeleti is an unusual last name that can be Hungarian; similar Vizka is the name of a place in the Czech Republic)

10 April 2015

heipi = wing (noun) (some things Google found for "heipi": an unusual to uncommon term; rare first name and rare last name that can possibly be Chinese; user names; Acantholaimus heipi is a species of roundworm; HEIPI is an acronym for HEI Properties, Inc.; misspelling of the name Heidi; misspelling of happy; similar Heipu is the name of a place in China)

06 April 2015

izolo = creature (noun) (some things Google found for "izolo": an uncommon term; in Zulu and Xhosa izolo means yesterday; Izolo (A Trip Into the Past) is a South African music album by Children of Nandi; name of a World of Warcraft character; similar Izolô Acessórios of Brazil sells jewelry and watches; iZolo Ltd of the UK is an app developer; a very rare first name and last name; user names; similar Izola is the name of a place in Slovenia)

The words creature and creatures appear over a dozen times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. "If it had grown up," she said to herself, "it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think."

02 April 2015

areke = timid (adjective) (some things Google found for "areke": an uncommon term; a drinkable liquor produced in Ethiopia; an unusual often feminine first name; a rare last name; Pension Areke Chez Kayser is a hotel in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia; apparently in Amharic which is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia areke means liquor; similar Areka is the name of a place in Ethiopia)

Another Basque word for timid is lotsati. Another Finnish word for timid is pelokas.

The word timid appears three times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In addition, timidly occurs nine times.

Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, "If you please, sir--" The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

About Me

Young enough to daydream, old enough to be somewhat realistic. I'm creating words in a made-up language. I'm not a linguist. Mariska is an old-fashioned Hungarian form of the name Mary. It's pronounced Marishka.

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About Miresua

Miresua is a scramble of Basque and Finnish, two languages that I don't actually speak but I find interesting. Words are intended to look foreign to English speakers.

There is nobody in this world that speaks Miresua as their native language. Miresua is a made-up, constructed language used in my fantasy writing.

The Basque and Finnish words shown are correct to the best of my knowledge.

When I say that a word equals something in English that is my definition only; it's not true in the real world. The miscellaneous information I list about the words is what Google search found on the Internet for that word.

The grammar of Miresua will take rules from Basque and Finnish. Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of affixes per word. Miresua will be a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). Although unlike Basque, but like Finnish, adjectives occur before the noun which they modify. Miresua, unlike Finnish, doesn't feature vowel harmony. (For my experiment with vowel harmony, see my Samgur artlang).

Finnish language

Finnish (native name: Suomi) is spoken in Finland. It is a minority language in the Northern European countries of Sweden, Norway, Russia, and Estonia. Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family (which also includes Hungarian). There are about 6 million total speakers of Finnish.

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Basque language

Basque (native name: Euskara) is spoken by in Basque Country, a region in the western Pyrenees mountains of Spain and France. Basque is a language with no demonstrable relationship with any other living language. There are about 1 million total speakers of Basque.